Xara Xtreme Pro 5

Xara Xtreme 5 is quite simply the world's fastest graphics software, with truly flexible illustration tools and revolutionary photo handling. Xara Xtreme is a great all-round graphics and document production tool, able to create vector illustrations, web graphics, flyers and now high-quality websites with ease. This one tool can produce all your documents. Instead of using separate, often expensive, difficult-to-learn software packages, with Xara Xtreme you can re-use the same creatives for brochures, (it includes excellent PDF export) and websites.

Xara Xtreme has the world's most sophisticated, highest performance vector rendering engine. For the user this speed means less wait, and a more satisfying working environment. It also means more productivity and the ability to create more complex drawings, in less time.

Many graphics packages will keep you waiting a few seconds while objects are drawn on the screen. In a complex document that can mean you waste a significant amount of time. With Xara Xtreme, when you create an image it appears instantly on the screen.

Speed isn't just restricted to creating and moving objects though - any time you manipulate an object by using one of the Direct Action Tools or the Color Editor for example, any changes you make also appear instantly. This constant live-preview of all actions contrasts dramatically with other programs where you typically have a 'try it - wait - try it again until you get it right' approach.

Xara Xtreme has always had by far the highest performing graphics rendering engine, up to ten times faster than Adobe Illustrator. Now with new support for multi-core processors in Xara Xtreme Pro it's even faster! Tests show approximate speed gains of 40% for a dual core processor with large screen images, and greater gains with more cores. Large full screen photos can render up to 75% faster on a dual core processor.

Xara Xtreme Pro includes PANTONE color libraries for use as both spot color and PANTONE process color equivalents.

Xara Xtreme Pro imports the new HD Photo format, also known as Windows Media Photo. Files can be saved in this HD photo format by Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3 plus Microsoft Expression Design.

Xara Xtreme photo and bitmap handling is faster and more powerful than you'll find in other graphics programs. Xara Xtreme uses compression techniques that means that Xara files including photos can be up to ten times smaller than equivalent images in other drawing programs, with enormous benefits for speed and usability. Plus Xara's unique non-destructive editing maintains the high quality of your original photo, however many times you edit it, and gives you the ability to undo any edits you've made to your photo, even after saving and reloading. As a result many people use Xara Xtreme as their primary, general purpose image composition tool.

Almost anything you can do to vector drawings you can also do to photos/bitmaps in Xtreme. For example, you can edit the shape, alter the transparency, including graduated transparency, use bitmaps as fills on any shape, add a drop shadow, feather the edges and a lot more - all in real-time.

Xara Xtreme supports all the common bitmap formats, for both import and export. Add to this the ability to handle multi-layer 32-bit alpha channel (semi-transparent) bitmaps and Xara Xtreme is a supreme image composition tool.

Xara Xtreme also includes an integrated photo editing tool. We don't pretend this makes it either a painting program or pixel editor but it does provide the most common photo editing features such as cropping, rotating, enhancing, sharpening, red-eye removal etc with a fast, interactive, live-preview of all edits. Plus the new V4 includes an effective photo panorama creator. The photo tool will continue to grow in capabilities with future releases of Xara Xtreme.

Xara Xtreme includes a fast bitmap tracer to help convert bitmaps to vector shapes.

Xara Xtreme also supports third party plug-ins such as Adobe Photoshop plug-ins to expand the range of available effects that you can apply to your photos.

Xtreme includes a collection of professionally designed, fully editable templates that include photo frames and photo album layouts.

Xara Xtreme is used by many different types of customer in a spectacular range of uses - for drawings, text and photos, for print and the web - so we understand how important it is to offer compatibility with other products and users. Xtreme offers support for a very large range of file formats, making it easy to exchange your work with other users and programs.

Xara Xtreme supports all the common graphics formats, including bitmap types like GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and PSD, and the import of photos as RAW or the new Photo HD (Xtreme Pro only). Plus it supports the key vector types like PDF and AI (Adobe Illustrator)/EPS, EMF (extended metafile) and WMF (Windows metafile), SVG (export only);early versions of CorelDRAW CDR and CMX and many others that are not so well known.

For text Xara Xtreme supports RTF (Rich Text Format). You can import and export text in RTF format so it includes style information such as font, font size, color, margins, special and foreign characters (Unicode supported).

If you're working on the web, then Xara Xtreme also offers integration with Adobe's Dreamweaver and can export Flash, Animated GIF and HTML pages.

Plus there's clipboard compatibility with the common Microsoft applications such as Outlook and Word.

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